13-letter words containing z, i, r
- dollarization — the conversion of a country's currency system into U.S. dollars.
- dragon lizard — Komodo dragon.
- dramatization — the act of dramatizing.
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- editorialized — Simple past tense and past participle of editorialize.
- editorializer — One who editorializes.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- electrization — the action of electrifying
- electrolyzing — Present participle of electrolyze.
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- epigrammatize — (transitive) To represent or express by epigrams.
- eretz yisrael — the Holy Land; Israel
- eroticization — The act or process of eroticizing.
- etherealizing — Present participle of etherealize.
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- extemporizing — Present participle of extemporize.
- exteriorizing — Present participle of exteriorize.
- externalizing — Present participle of externalize.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- familiarizing — Present participle of familiarize.
- fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- flying lizard — flying dragon.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
- freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
- freezing rain — rain that falls as a liquid but freezes into glaze upon contact with the ground.
- gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- glamorization — to make glamorous.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- granitization — a hypothetical process of forming granite.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- harmonization — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- hazard lights — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
- heterozygosis — the state of being a heterozygote.
- heterozygotic — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- horizontality — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.